[Gllug] Linux support options

[Simon Morris]

On 27/02/06, Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Simon Morris writes:
>
> >Whether you want support from Red Hat or not you need to pay to
> >subscribe to the RHN and receive patches from them. I looked into this
> >recently and it isn't legal (within the agreement for Red Hat Enterprise
> >Linux) to use their product without a current RHN subscription.
>
> Really? That's in direct contradiction to my conclusion when I looked
> into it a year or two ago. There is nothing to prevent you from using
> the distribution without a subscription, but doing so will require
> you to patch by compiling the source RPMs yourself. They don't provide
> binary RPMs to non-subscribers (which is one of the reasons to go the
> CentOS route, rathen than subscriptionless RHEL).

IIRC one issue is the use of Red Hat trademarked logos and artwork in
the distribution.

I may be wrong - I'll dig my emails out from that discussion with RH

Thanks!

~sm
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